Check out the Mothers Out Front South Bay team at the September 8th Press Conference to push for #SB100 - more renewable energy for CA!

Here are 9 photos from the press conference (in the opposite order we spoke). Thank you to all of the awesome speakers and moderator!! And to Assemblymember Sylvia Arena’s staff for providing the pop-up tent for shade! :)

Members of South Bay Mothers Out Front (including moms Angie, Linda, Martina and Amanda plus four children) attended the August 9th San Jose (CA) City Council meeting to show our enthusiasm for San Jose Clean Energy (the nation’s largest Community Choice Energy program), our support for Mayor Liccardo's recommendation that the City affirm that we are still in the Paris Climate Accord, and our hope that the City Council will pass a resolution supporting California Senate Bill 100, the California Clean Energy Act, which will commit California to 100% clean energy by 2045 and to 50% clean energy by 2026.

The South Bay (San Jose, CA) Mothers Out Front team recently joined the Silicon Valley Climate Action Alliance (SVCAA), a broad coalition of climate change, environmental, and social justice organizations in Silicon Valley who are working as a unified force to accelerate the move to a carbon-free energy environment.

As part of this coalition, South Bay Mothers Out Front team is participating in visits with local California state Senators and Assembly members to discuss California’s recent cap-and-trade extension and to encourage them to support climate-friendly and democracy-protecting legislation, in particular Senate Bill 100 (which would commit CA to achieving 100% renewable energy by 2045) and AB 249 (the California DISCLOSE Act, which would let voters know who is REALLY paying for campaign ads by mandating that the names of the top three funders be displayed prominently).

Above: South Bay Mothers Out Front team co-lead Linda Hutchins-Knowles (left) joined fellow SVCAA members Deborah Levoy of 350 Silicon Valley (seated) and Chris Lepe of TransForm (right) in a meeting with climate champion Assemblymember Ash Kalra (center) and his District Director Stacie Shih (the photographer). They discussed plans to support 100% clean energy in California with SB 100 and to bring greater transparency to California elections with AB 249 (the DISCLOSE Act). We expressed our thanks to him for his leadership on these vital bills.